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2009: The Year Mobile Web Use Exploded

Mobile Web usage has been on the upswing ever since the iPhone leaped onto the stage. But new data form Opera suggests it's not just the iPhone that's delivering the Internet to smartphone users. Opera, in its Opera Mini format, is ...READ»

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The Cell-Phone Symphony

Vodaphone NZ reproduces Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, using 1,000 cell phones. Seriously, just watch this video.READ»

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Nokia Says You May Not Need Nerd Glasses After All

Last month I lambasted Nokia's mixed reality concept video for showing a future-woman using a pair of ludicrous augmented reality glasses. As it turns out, Nokia's researchers aren't sold on them either. "If the assumption is that ...READ»

Nokia Sues Apple: Jealous Much?

Nokia Sues Apple: Jealous Much?

Nokia may be the World's biggest cell-phone maker, but its performance in smartphones has been largely disappointing, especially in the post-iPhone era. Apple's device is so jealousy inducing it seems to have prompted ...READ»

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$834 Million Quarterly Loss Puts the 'Noooo' in Nokia

Nokia's just posted its third quarter financial report, and it's absolutely abysmal: An $834 million loss. But that's not all--there's still more bad news.READ»

Nokia Booklet 3G Hands On: Nice Netbook, But How Much?
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Nokia Booklet 3G Hands On: Nice Netbook, but How Much?

The Nokia Booklet 3G has touched down on US soil. The cell phone manufacturer's first laptop is made of sturdy stuff and is mobile broadband/SIM-card friendly. I'd buy one if the price is right. But chances are it's not. I've got to ...READ»

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Nokia's N900 Takes on the iPhone

Back in August Nokia pulled the veil off its Maemo OS flagship smartphone/MID mini-tablet device, the N900, and touted its advanced Flash powers. Now the Finnish company has revealed lots more on the gizmo, and it's impressive. When ...READ»

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Nokia Concept Smartphone UI Puts the 'Friend' in User-Friendly

So your smartphone is a very neat bit of tech, serving up your cellphone, portable gaming and MP3 needs...but have you ever wondered if it could be designed to be more friendly?CIID students Kevin Cannon and Tobias Toft definitely ...READ»

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Could the 8-Megapixel N86 Boost Nokia's U.S. Fortunes?

Despite Nokia's global success it's performance in the U.S. market has been lackluster. Can the arrival of the N86 to America, with its Symbian-smartphone and 8-megapixel-camera powers help turn that situation around? The phone was ...READ»

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What Ever Happened to HP's Augmented Reality Game?

Dig through YouTube's sands, and you'll find this: An HP concept video from 2007 about an augmented reality game called Roku's Revenge. (No, not that Roku.) It looks like fun. A lot of fun. So what ever happened to it? It was ...READ»

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Nokia's Sad Augmented Reality

Yesterday, Nokia released a well-produced video demonstrating what they apparently believe to be the future of augmented reality apps. If you haven't been keeping up with AR, it's just used to denote an information layer ...READ»

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Apple Won't Make Netbooks, but Its Manufacturer Will

Despite the success of the netbook genre of mini-PCs, Apple has repeatedly stated it won't enter the market. But that's apparently not stopping Foxconn, one of Apple's most trusted manufacturers from making some of its own. After ...READ»

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Facebook Aims for the Heart of Mobile Social Networking: Apps

When I joked everything would soon be wired to a social network the other day I didn't realize how close I was to the mark. Because social net giant Facebook is angling to become the vehicle that lets everything on your smartphone get ...READ»

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Nokia Spins "Lifecasting" App, Forgets It's Really Facebook's Mojo

Nokia's moving fast to catch up with current tech memes: As well as leaping into the smartbook and netbook fray, it's also getting into social net "lifecasting" thanks to a new Ovi app that connects to Facebook. That all sounds ...READ»

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Nokia Rocks the World: The Phone King's Plan to Redefine Its Business

Nokia already owns the global cell-phone market. Now Tero Ojanperä is launching the world's biggest delivery system for services, apps, and entertainment.READ»

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'Nokia Money' Will Turn Mobile Devices Into Banks, Nokia Into World's Largest ATM

Nokia has already said it plans to become the world's largest entertainment network through its vast share of the mobile handset market (read our September cover story for more detail). Now it looks like the Finnish mobile device ...READ»

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How Real Innovation Moves the Needle

In the wake of the financial disaster, it’s entirely legitimate to wonder: Is innovation relevant anymore? READ»

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Is Nokia's App-Enabled Booklet Netbook Trying to Beat Apple's Tablet?

This is hot news on the InterWebs this morning--Nokia's apparently going to move into a totally new market: It's making a PC, a netbook number that's also integrated with the Ovi App Store. Is Nokia taking on Apple's iTablet? Nokia ...READ»

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RIM Is World's Fastest-Growing Company

While most cubicles are buzzing with fawning talk of iPhones and Pres, the phones that sit idly listening to all that talk are probably BlackBerry Curves. If unexciting, the Curve is the top selling smartphone in the U.S., and part of ...READ»

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Who Are the Real Celebrities in Design?

Hero worship certainly isn’t a new phenomenon, but in the context of design, it’s a growing influencer that merits deeper discussion.READ»

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Office Chatter: Microsoft-Nokia Deal in the Works

The Internet rumor fairies have been sprinkling their magic news story dust around again, and have given us a rather intriguing suggestion this time: Nokia and Microsoft are due to announce an alliance today. According to the ...READ»

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Nokia Wants You To Control Your Phone Without Buttons

Apple isn't the only company with some creative plans for smartphone UIs: Nokia just revealed how it thinks we might control our phones in the future. There'll be a lot of waving them in the air. Though Nokia was horribly late to ...READ»

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Nokia Profits Slump: Is The Cellphone World About to Change?

Though Nokia's not a massive name in the U.S., across the rest of the world it's enormous--the biggest cell-phone retailer by far. But the giant company's just announced its second-quarter profits, and they're terribly bad. In fact, ...READ»

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Iranians Revolting Against Nokia for Alleged Spying Complicity

The tech-savviness of the Iranian people served them well during the protests against corruption in the recent election, and now it's making them turn against cellphone giant Nokia--a government colluder in their eyes.READ»

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Watch Out Nokia: Sony Ericsson's Got the Hang of Smartphone Design

More images of Sony Ericsson's upcoming Android Rachael smartphone have leaked and confirm it's a real looker, right up with the iPhone's minimalistic beauty. Nokia, with its clunky retro-boring N97 should watch out.The Racheal's ...READ»

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